the stock market is very close to how the economy grows, and the economy's growing nicely. the other thing i would keep reading about, i listened to nur yule this morning talking about 1.5% growth or 2% growth. i hear everybody say that. that's not the growth. the growth is 6% or 7%. so last year for example the growth in our economy was 6.8%. 15.8 trillion the year before was 14.8 trillion. so what people keep forgetting, they give you real growth, but the nominal growth is the number that is affecting everyone and the stock market, the reason stocks are interesting is they're giving you a hedge against inflation. so inflation is 4% or 5% a year. not 2%. that's how come you have 15.8%, 15.8 trillion dollar gdp to 14.8 trillion a year ago. stocks are the only real hedge against that. so you can invest in vanguard fund and that's the return you get. >> ron it's sorkin. nouriel is still here so let's get your perspective on this. >> i have a question you know the growth rate of the economy was about 3%. some people now worry closer to 2.5% or less. we have public debt as a sh